People who were adults before the internet became mainstream- what did you do with your free time?

Played. Did shit.

I had a trampoline, bows and arrows, tools, toys to play with, paper and crayons, an insect collection that took up half a wall. I fished, built stuff, made forts, played ball, wrestled, ran track, had karate lessons, played DnD, hunted rabbits and stuff, played board games in the evenings, did chores (chopped wood, cared for animals) had a FT job at 14, picked fruit for "summer money" before that. Grew my own garden at age 9, lots more chores. My mom had us at the library constantly taking sign language and cooking classes. Went to church activities, did choir, plays, etc at both church and school. I even took a year of ballet.

Rode bikes a hundred miles per day sometimes, read hundreds of books, shot the shit with my brother and friends, wooden sword fights, dirt-clod fights,

We made a catapult once out of bike wheels, plywood, 2x4s and old bike innertubes. We made a huge castle once out of sawmill slab my dad brought home for the woodstove.

We slaughtered chickens and hogs, butchered deer, canned fruit and helped in the garden. I taught myself to act reading poetry aloud.

We just did shit. Whatever you could find, think up, imagine, stumble across, etc...whatever was there. Whatever was next..

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